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From: forsyth@vit... forsyth@vit...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 15:27:35 BST

yorvic.york.ac.uk!caves asks:
>Or have I just reinvented inferno?

>forsyth@cal... wrote:
>> <snip>
>> The most useful aspect of Infernospaces (from our point of view outside)
>> was that it incorporated non-Inferno systems into an Inferno world
>> without having to have them run Inferno.  
><snip>

my posting to comp.os.inferno unfortunately had some ambiguous prepositions,
and i was also a little too subtle in my wording, but worse, you unfortunately
didn't quote the whole thing here, leaving the impression that i might
have thought more of InfernoSpaces than i did (or do), or that i thought
there was something fundamentally wrong with the hosted principle behind
Inferno.  i'd better spell it out a bit more.
generally, I (or we, really since it includes others at Vita Nuova)
take the view that InfernoSpaces was simultaneously too little and too much.
It was `too much' for small devices, where (by contrast) 9p/styx looks fine,
and offered `too little' beyond that really to improve the structuring, implementation
and portability of cross-platform applications.   i know where Infernospace has
gone, but i haven't heard what will become of it.  in the Inferno/Plan9 milieu
we hope to provide something that attacks the part of the problem where
(we thought) InfernoSpaces meant well.